{"id":1806,"date":"2007-04-23T15:52:27","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T19:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:11:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:11:44","slug":"london-officials-paint-over-famous-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/23\/london-officials-paint-over-famous-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"London officials paint over famous Banksy mural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/2\/3699650_62250c2434.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Transit workers in London, England, have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/04\/20\/nbanksy20.xml\">painted over a famous mural<\/a> by the artist Banksy. The estimated value of the mural was over half a million dollars (it featured John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson from the film <em>Pulp Fiction<\/em>, amended to show them clutching bananas instead of guns).<\/p>\n<p>Transport for London, the city&#8217;s transit agency, defended their action, saying that covering the mural would make the area safer and more attractive. They added that &#8220;our graffiti removal teams are staffed by professional cleaners not professional art critics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A local businessman, by contrast, noted that the mural enhanced the area&#8217;s appearance and attracted visitors. He added &#8220;There is no way it could have been mistaken for graffiti. Whoever destroyed it is an idiot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thephotofactory\/\">photo factory<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transit workers in London, England, have painted over a famous mural by the artist Banksy. The estimated value of the mural was over half a million dollars (it featured John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson from the film Pulp Fiction, amended to show them clutching bananas instead of guns). Transport for London, the city&#8217;s transit<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/23\/london-officials-paint-over-famous-mural\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;London officials paint over famous Banksy mural&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21757],"tags":[315,566,17,5497,5495,359,21,5498,5496,464,391],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","tag-artist","tag-banksy","tag-graffiti","tag-john-travolta","tag-local-businessman","tag-london","tag-other-cities","tag-pulp-fiction","tag-samuel-l-jackson","tag-united-kingdom","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>London officials paint over famous Banksy mural - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/04\/23\/london-officials-paint-over-famous-mural\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"London officials paint over famous Banksy mural - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Transit workers in London, England, have painted over a famous mural by the artist Banksy. 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